Here is a context clues worksheet on the verb ransack, which is only used transitively; unsurprising, since one must ransack something, mustn’t one?
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Because it came up consistently in connection with Adolf Hitler’s rise to power in Germany when I taught sophomore global studies in New York City, I wrote this context clues worksheet on the German loan word putsch for use with the lesson on Hitler’s infamous Beer Hall Putsch in 1923.
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Alright, this week’s Text is a lesson plan on the art of summarizing which is part of a bigger unit on argumentation that I wrote–but used only once–a couple of years ago.
This context clues worksheet on the verb concede (which is used transitively, but can be used intransitively, according to Merriam-Webster’s, by writing to make concession) opens the lesson. I use this exemplar of a summary, drawn from the book that informs this unit, Gerald Graff and Cathy Birkenstein’s They Say/I Say: The Moves that Matter in Academic Writing (New York: Norton, 2018) as a learning support and model text. This learning support on the verbs used in the rhetorical figures of argumentation supplies students with the vocabulary they require to postulate and write sound arguments. Here are the two exercises for summarizing that are at the center of this lesson. Finally, here is the worksheet for this lesson that contains the full text of the exemplar linked to above.
And that’s it for another week at Mark’s Text Terminal. Enjoy the weekend.
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Moving right along, here is a context clues worksheet on the adjective prodigious, a word that students probably ought to know before they graduate high school. As I post this, I realize I probably ought to write a worksheet on the noun, prodigy, as well.
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I don’t know if high school students really need to know the word (though it wouldn’t hurt, I submit), but if you think they do, here is a context clues worksheet on the noun polyglot for you.
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I would think this context clues worksheet on the noun physique would have application somewhere (if nowhere else) in a physical education curriculum.
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While I have posted these materials elsewhere on Mark’s Text Terminal, I have not included (because I just wrote it yesterday) this lesson plan on Vlad the Impaler. He is the model for Bram Stoker’s Dracula. He also offers a glimpse into the mentality of some of those European knights who went on Crusade in the Holy Land. His biography also offers some insight into the privileges and prerogatives of European nobility in the fifteenth century. And of course, there are his horrifying crimes against humanity, though they would not have been called that at the time (see “privileges and prerogatives of European nobility”).
Anyway, here is a context clues worksheet on the verb impale (it’s only used transitively). This short reading on Vlad is the center of the lesson. Finally, here is the vocabulary-building and comprehension worksheet that accompanies the reading.
And with that: Happy Halloween! Go easy on the candy, eh?
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It’s a word that I didn’t learn until a professor of mine at Hampshire College wrote it in an evaluation of my Division II work (which was very gratifying), so maybe high schoolers need not learn it. If you think they should, though, then here is a context clues worksheet on the adjective perspicacious. It means “of acute mental vision or discernment.”
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Last but not least this morning is this lesson plan on culture and religion as causes of history. I start this lesson with this context clues worksheet on the noun epidemic. This lesson is a brainstorming and note-taking activity, so, accordingly, you’ll want this (or some iteration of it you make) this brainstorming and note-taking worksheet for students to use.
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When I look at this context clues worksheet on the noun pentagon I see that I tried to write a worksheet that dealt with this noun both as a geometric shape and the headquarters of the United States military. I’m not sure it succeeds on either score, but it’s easily revised if you need to use it.
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